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of inspection or not. The Entomologist shall have authority to seize, condemn 

 and destroy any nursery stock infested with San Jose scale or other seriously 

 injurious insect or disease, found within the confines of this State. 



"(e) Each and every person, firm or corporation growing nursery si oik 

 for sale in this State shall apply to the Secretary of the Crop IVst Commission 

 for inspection on or before July 1 of each year. It shall be the duty of th.- 

 Secretary to inspect such nursery not later than November 1st. If upon such- 

 inspection the nursery stock and premises be found apparently free from the 

 San Jose scale and other seriously injurious insects and plant diseases, a <! 

 tificate shall be given to that effect. On and after August 1, I'.mr,. ;i copy of 

 said certificate bearing the seal of the Crop Pest Commission and the fac-si'milt 

 signature of the Secretary, shall be attached to each and every box, bundle and 

 package of nursery stock shipped within this State. Shipments of nursery 

 stock not so labeled shall be refused for shipment by all common carriers and 

 their agents, and such stock if found in transit or in the possession of any 

 common carrier by the Entomologist or his assistants, shall be liable to con- 

 fiscation. 



"(f) No firm, person or corporation shall sell, give away, exchange or 

 deliver, within this State, any trees, vines, shrubs, or plants, commonly known 

 as nursery stock, without same haying attached thereto in a prominent manner, 

 a copy of the certificate of inspection signed by the Secretary of the State Crop 

 Pest Commission, or by the State Entomologist or other duly authorized official 

 of the State or country in which said nursery stock was grown. 



"(g) The Entomologist of the Commission shall have power to require 

 any one in the State to fumigate his trees, shrubs or plants with hydrocyanic 

 acid gas or other substance, when, in his judgment, such treatment is neces- 

 sary or advisable lor the proper protection of the agricultural or horticultural 

 interests of the State or of any section thereof." 



